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As Long As There Is Democracy, There Will Be People Wanting To Play Jazz Because Nothing Else Will Ever So Perfectly Capture The Democratic Process In Sound. Jazz Means Working Things Out Musically With Other People. You Have To Listen To Other Musicians And Play With Them Even If You Don't Agree With What They're Playing. It Teaches You The Very Opposite Of Racism And Anti-semitism. It Teaches You That The World Is Big Enough To Accommodate Us All.

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The History Of Jazz Lets Us Know That This Period In Our History Is Not The Only Period We've Come Through Together. If We Truly Understood The History Of Our National Arts, We'd Know That We Have Mutual Aspirations, A Shared History, In Good Times And Bad.

Nothing Else Will Ever Capture The Democratic Process In Sound As Perfectly As Jazz.

The Young Very Seldom Lead Anything In Our Country Today. It's Been Quite Some Time Since A Younger Generation Pushed An Older One To A Higher Standard.